1. The Mission of the Church is Right

2. The Methods of the Church is Right 

     A. Prayer

     B. Witnessing

3. The Ministry of the Church is Right

4. The Message of the Church is Right 

5. The Missions Strategy of the Church is Right 

6. The Minister/Messiah of the Church is Right - Jesus Christ

Preached on Sunday Morning, July 14, 2019, in the 9am & 10:30am worship services at Northcrest Baptist Church, 3412 N Hills Street, Meridian, MS by Dr. Ken Weathersby. This was our kick-off service to Love Out Loud 2019.

Ken Weathersby is vice president for convention advancement with the Southern Baptist Convention's Executive Committee, the first African American to hold an EC vice presidential position. 

Weathersby in 1999 was the first African American pastor to hold a full-time associate professorship at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, where he was director of the seminary's Cecil B. Day Center for Church Planting and director of the Nehemiah Project, which steered seminary graduates into church planting.

He also has served the Tennessee Baptist Convention as evangelism specialist and team leader for evangelism strategies and director of the black church extension and multihousing office.

The Black Denominational Servants Network honored Weathersby in 2012 for his denominational service with the Kennedy Boyce Award, named for the first two African American pastors to join the SBC in 1953. The National African American Fellowship in 2009 honored him with the "Best Friend of Pastors" award for his work in facilitating relationships between the SBC and black pastors.

Weathersby has planted and pastored churches in Alabama, Ohio and Baton Rouge, La., where he started and led Douglas Avenue Baptist Church from 1989-93.

A native of Jackson, Miss., he holds a master of divinity degree from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., and a B.A. from Mississippi College in Clinton. He also holds a doctor of ministry degree from Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson.

He and his wife Belva Kennedy Weathersby from Charleston, S.C. have a daughter, Kenyeta, and a son, Breon.